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Channel Callsign City of license Dates Affiliation Notes 16: WWOD-TV: Lynchburg: 1952 – July 10, 1953 (CP) construction permit forfeited 20: WARL-TV: Arlington: 1956–1960 (CP) construction permit canceled 24: WBTM-TV: Danville: January 6, 1954 – December 31, 1954: ABC: 27: WTOV-TV: Norfolk: October 22, 1953 – October 3, 1954 May 25 ...
Pages in category "Television stations in Roanoke, Virginia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
WPXR-TV (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Roanoke–Lynchburg market.The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and maintains a transmitter atop Poor Mountain in unincorporated southwestern Roanoke County.
The channel was launched on October 7, 1991, as NewsChannel 8.The "8" branding was selected as a part of the name to attempt to get Washington-area cable providers to place the channel between its parent ABC-affiliated station, WJLA-TV (at channel 7), and local CBS affiliate WUSA-TV on channel 9.
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WDBJ-TV first signed on the air on October 3, 1955. [5] [6] It was owned by the Times-World Corporation, publishers of the Roanoke Times and Roanoke World-News, alongside WDBJ radio (960 AM, now WFIR; and 94.9 FM, now WSLC-FM). Channel 7 has been a CBS affiliate since its sign-on, owing to WDBJ radio's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio ...
Later occupying the channel 27 frequency was WRFT-TV/WRLU, which operated as the market's secondary ABC affiliate from 1966 to 1974 [8] [9] and again from 1974 to 1975. [10] At the time, the area's primary ABC affiliate, WLVA-TV (channel 13, now WSET-TV ) in Lynchburg, provided only marginal signal coverage in Roanoke.
WSET-TV (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group , and has studios on Langhorne Road in Lynchburg; its transmitter is located atop Thaxton Mountain, near Thaxton, Virginia .